Privacy Policy Mending Matters, a California nonprofit corporation tax exempt under Internal Revenue Code Section 501(c)(3) (“Company”) is committed to safeguarding your online privacy with respect to the personally identifiable information that we may obtain from you at the https://www.mendingmatters.org/ web site (the “Web Site”). Our Privacy and Information Security Policy (“Privacy Policy”) answers frequently asked questions about your online privacy, including what personally identifiable information we may obtain from you and how it will be used and protected. Company may from time to time change this Privacy Policy, so please check back periodically.
WHAT PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION DO WE OBTAIN FROM YOU? WHEN DO WE OBTAIN SUCH INFORMATION?
If, upon visiting our Web Site, your use is limited to browsing our informational content, we will not require that you provide us with any personally identifiable information. However, we may request personal information from you at other times, including without limitation:
- If you enroll for an account to login to our Web Site, we may ask that you provide us with certain personal information;
- If you send an email to us through our contact page;
HOW DO WE PROTECT THE SECURITY AND QUALITY OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?
To protect the security and quality of your personal information, we have implemented technical and managerial procedures to maintain accurate, current and complete information as well as to protect your personal information against loss, misuse or alteration when it is under our control. We have also taken steps to help protect the integrity of your personal financial information to help prevent your information from being read by unauthorized persons during transmission through the use of SSL (Secure Socket Layer) encryption for the secure exchange of your personal information to and from your computer or device to the Web Site. While no system is completely secure, we believe these steps are within industry standards to protect your personal information.
HOW DO WE USE YOUR INFORMATION?
Our primary use of your information is to administer, maintain and improve your experience on our Web Site generally as well as provide you with customized, personalization services and interactive communications. We may also use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server and to administer the services offered on our Web Site.
WHAT ABOUT PRIVACY WHEN CLICKING ON WEBSITE LINKS TO THIRD PARTIES?
Third parties that have links on our Web Site may collect personally identifiable information about you. We are not responsible for the privacy policies or practices of such sites and the practices of these sites are not governed by this Privacy Policy. If you have questions about the privacy policies or practices of a third-party site, you should contact the site administrator of the specific target site. We may from time to time partner with third parties to offer co-branded events or programs. Any information that you provide in connection with the co-branded events or programs may become the joint property of Company and the third party. We will maintain your information in accordance with the terms of this Privacy Policy, however, this Privacy Policy does not govern the privacy policies and practices of third parties. If you have questions about the privacy policies or practices of third parties, you should contact them directly.
DO WE SELL OR RENT YOUR PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION?
No, we do not sell or rent your personally identifiable information to anyone. If and whenever we intend to share your personally identifiable information with a third party (other than a third party for a co-branded event or program), you will be notified at the time of data collection or transfer, and you will have the option of not permitting the transfer.
WITH WHOM DO WE SHARE INFORMATION?
We generally will not disclose any of your personally identifiable information except when we have your permission to do so or under some special circumstances, including without limitation:
- As noted previously, we may from time to time partner with third parties to offer co-branded events or programs. Any information that you provide in connection with the co-branded events or programs may become the joint property of Company and the co-branding third party.
- We may disclose your personally identifiable information without your prior permission in special cases. For example, we may have reason to believe in good faith that law or regulation requires disclosure.
HOW CAN YOU UPDATE, CORRECT OR DELETE YOUR PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION?
You may edit your personally identifiable information and your password at any time via the Web Site. If you need technical assistance to edit your personally identifiable information via the Web Site, please contact us for assistance.
WHAT ARE COOKIES? HOW DO WE USE COOKIES?
Cookies enable us to customize and personalize your experience on our Web Site. Essentially, a cookie is a small amount of data that is sent to your browser from a web server and is stored on your computer’s hard drive. We may use cookies for several purposes in connection with the operation of our Web Site, including without limitation:
- We may use cookies to identify you and access your information stored on our computers in order to deliver you a better and more personalized experience.
- Upon request, we will save your “user name” so that you do not have to re-enter it every time you visit our Web Site. In providing you with this service, we use cookies.
- We may use cookies to estimate our customer base and customer usage patterns. Each browser accessing our Web Site may use given a unique cookie that is then used to determine the extent of repeat visits and the customer activity during those visits.
Third parties with whom we offer co-branded events or programs may use their own cookies. We have no control over those cookies, nor does this Privacy Policy cover how your personal information contained in those cookies may be used or protected. If you have any questions about the cookies of such third parties, or about the use of your personal information by such third parties, you should contact the site administrator of the third party site.
DO YOU HAVE CHOICES ABOUT COOKIES?
Yes, you have several choices with respect to cookies. You can modify your browser preferences to accept all cookies, to notify you when a cookie is set, or to reject all cookies. However, our Web Site may use cookie-based authentication, so if you choose to reject all cookies, you may not be able to log onto our Web Site or may not be able to stay logged in between browsing sessions without providing your username and password to log in each time you start a new browsing session.
WHAT ELSE SHOULD YOU KNOW ABOUT YOUR ONLINE PRIVACY?
It is important to remember that whenever you voluntarily disclose personal information online, your information can be collected and used by others. If you transmit or post personal information online that is accessible to others, you will not be able to control how that information is used by others. When we receive the transmitted information, we will use the procedures summarized in this Privacy Policy to ensure the integrity and security of that information in our systems. Unfortunately, notwithstanding any of the steps taken by us, it is not possible to guarantee the security and integrity of data transmitted over the Internet. Consequently, while we take the above-described reasonable steps to protect your personal information, we cannot and do not warrant the security or integrity of any information you transmit to us when registering for our Web Site or otherwise. All such transmission of information is at your own risk. Moreover, though we are committed to having our Web Site comply with this Privacy Policy, you are ultimately responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your password and your personally identifiable information. If you are careless with your password, or you decide to share your password with third parties, you must be aware of the risk that such third parties will have access to all your personally identifiable information.
HOW CAN YOU CONTACT US WITH QUESTIONS ABOUT THIS PRIVACY POLICY?
If you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy or the practices of our Web Site, please feel free to visit our contact page at https://www.mendingmatters.org/contact/ and send us a message.
